Craziest table mates you have had.

[AquaDame]

You can take care of that this weekend - across the river in Vancouver is the Tattoo and Body Piercing and Body Art "convention"

I'm keeping Portland weird, what can I say?

Blair Reynolds? I use his BJ Reynolds (Formerly Trader Tiki's) syrups in my drinks. Thatch was always on my bucketiki list, which put Hale Pele on that list when Blair bought Thatch and converted it.

Yup thats him! He's always chatty when we go in too, you will love it. Comparatively the two aren't even in the same ballpark drink quality wise so you did not miss much. The food is oh so much better as well! Lots of tiki love in pdx - we had a blast on the home bar tour last year during (drum roll please) http://www.tikikon.com/ too! I think Blair loves Trader Sam's and Adventureland *almost* as much as I do. Almost.

 

[fairytalelover]

Remembered seeing a link to a video of such activities on DCL on an old post. Here is a sample of a day in the life... http://youtu.be/TXrNr1Cuypk

Holy Cow! This video freaked my and my family out!! This is insane?? These people are not normal! And honestly, if we ever came across them we would tell them to their face that they are insane and need to see a doctor. I actually think they may be dangerous around real children. It seems like these people want to have a real baby. They might kidnap a child at some point! Wow! I had never heard of such a thing! Did you notice that this person did not show her face at all? Why is she hiding her identity?? If they are ever seated at our table, I will call a CM over and ask them to be removed from our table and tell the CMs that I think they are dangerous.....

 

[fairytalelover]

Just a note on the babies - she posted a comment on that YouTube video that says this: "No, I'm not crazy. I'm fully aware that these are just dolls. It's just a hobby, I make videos for fun. No I do not want real children, no I don't want to adopt, no I did not lose a child, or am preparing for one. I work a normal job, I have a family and just do this as a hobby and for fun! Lighten up people. I have an imagination and I use it! Thanks "

Just thought I'd share since so many people seem to be curious or creating their own stories!

She can say whatever she wants to justify it but she is insane and needs serious help. This is not normal. It's NOT a hobby. It's a sickness.

 

[DVCJones]

I'm pretty sure that a crew member did say something after the toe sucking, but it was 13 years ago and my memory is foggy on some of the details I do recall seeing them around the ship and the man's hand was always down the back of her pants and I mean waaaayyy down the back. I have no idea what their story was, but they didn't seem to care what anyone else thought about their behavior and everyone on the ship knew who they were

13 years ago....

He's probably dead by now and she's probably spending his $$$. Lol

 

[DahliaRW]

We've always requested a table to ourselves. Each time we get close to a cruise, I think "why don't we try mixed seating and see if we make friends!" and then a thread like this pops up and I think better of it!

I'm afraid that we'll be the ones people post their "craziest table mates" posts about! My husband and I own a nightclub in a big city. We're atheists. We both have tattoos AND piercings. I have pink dreadlocks down to my waist. We share a bottle of wine with dinner almost every night on our cruise even though we don't really drink at home. I never understand when posters are like "they'll save the leftovers for you for the next night" 'cause we never have leftover wine! But we're both politically fairly conservative and somewhat socially liberal. Our son is a little socially awkward and a little nerdy. I think we're adorable! But, I can see how most people wouldn't mesh well with us, even though I think we're pretty gosh-darn fun!

Maybe I'll continue requesting a table of our own so we can stay the family everyone stares at but doesn't have to make polite conversation with

I don't think having tattoos or piercings or being atheist makes you any more weird that I am for having none and believing in God. I would find you weird if you tried to convince us or my children that we should get tattoos or were very vocal about being an atheist. And I'd be weird if I went on and on about tattoo removal, shampoo, and the need for God! (not that either of us would do that, just using it as examples). Point being, I don't think appearances make people "weird" or "bad table mates", but it's usually behavior. Though showing up to dinner in the same stained clothes night after night might be the exception.

Now if we did sit with you, I can guarantee that my kid would be asking questions about your hair and tattoos and piercings out of curiosity. And I would remind them to be polite, but I'm not one to totally shut down my kids questions as long as they are polite about it. My daughter, in particular, would want to know how she could get pink hair like yours!

We've only been on one cruise, but we had perfectly normal table mates that we could have good conversations with who were careful to avoid touchy subjects. The most "political" we got was about Cuba (they were Canadian) because the dad mentioned he had been there and we talked about how we'd like to be able to go - and we were pretty much on the same page (embargo is dumb in this day and age). Other than that, polite conversation and my dd and their ds had a blast playing!

 

[conandrob240]

The woman with the dolls is clearly mentally disturbed. Some part of her must be highly functioning if she holds down a job but there is clearly part of her that is broken and needs help. I cannot believe that DCL would let her carry on like that. The dolls look real and her behavior with them is disturbing. I was uncomfortable watching five minutes of her creepy video- I can't imagine putting up with her disturbance IRL.

 

[twindaddy]

Then there are table neighbor issues. This video has a few salty words, but it is interesting. Almost a fight in the dining room!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ns5VWxcdCo


I have seem to have the bad table neighbor gene, I have always had wonderful people at my table over several different cruise lines, but on Carnival and Princess, I had bad neighbors, and on Disney, like I said earlier in the thread, a boy next to our table barfed all over his family, and it was a LOT of barf.

 

[fnrsgrl]

That video hits a nerve with me. The problem is that if restaurants of any kind remove families with disruptive children from the property or sometimes even request that the parents control them, it gets blown up all over the media, mommy blogs and review sites that thus-and-such isn't a family-friendly establishment or hates kids. It's ridiculous! A manager should be able to remove any patron who is disruptive to others in the restaurant and who will not correct the behavior without fearing any kind of serious recourse, regardless of that patron's age. It's not right or fair for paying customers without children or those with children that are under control to have their entire meal ruined by being subjected to screaming or running children. Consequently, children running free in restaurants could be very dangerous to the children themselves and to others (it's a room full of people carrying knives and hot food on trays that may block their view of a small person) and shouldn't be tolerated by management. Plus, as soon as those folks came over and started threatening those that had been complaining about them, they should have been removed immediately, not allowed to yell and scream for five minutes. Hopefully, Disney would handle this situation better than Carnival did. (And before anyone gets upset, please don't get me wrong, I love kids and understand that they can't always be kept still or quiet, especially when their normal patterns and schedules have been disrupted. I just feel like parents nearly always have the option to remove their disruptive children from the restaurant/other public space and take them somewhere private to calm down or be dealt with.)

 

[phinz]

we had a blast on the home bar tour last year during (drum roll please) http://www.tikikon.com/ too!

I'm a regular at http://thehukilau.com/2014/ and have been to http://www.tikioasis.com I plan on going ot Tikikon sometime as well. I have several Tiki friends in the PNW and my family lives in the Seattle area.

 

[Angeejoe]

I have to tell you that that this thread had me laughing so hard last night that I woke up DH & had to leave our room. I had to read thru it it all & was up until 1:30a because it was too funny. I have never cruised before & were thinking of actually going this fall. This has me questioning table mates. Thanks for making my night .

The only table mate story I have is at @ Biergarten WDW in 2011, we hadn't been to WDW in 10 yrs & I only remembered that we loved the dinner, but forgot that you share tables. We were seated with a former CM & her new BF & a couple from Orlando. We had a great conversation with the former CM, but the Orlando couple said nothing other than they were from Orlando & they were eating so fast & had multiple plates before we finished one. I kept thinking to myself, slow down its a buffet you can have as much as you want & stay as long as you want. 15-20 min later they went up for more food & never came back. We were having such a good conversation with the other couple I didn't think of it until our waitress came & asked where they went & proceed to ask if they were our friends. We said no & she said "not again!". She went on to tell us there's a subculture of locals who get into WDW for free from a CM friend & they go to restaurants & dine & dash!!! I was flabbergasted, I've heard dine & dash but I've never actually been witness to it & then to have shared a table with them. It was so weird especially to know that it happens often.

 

[DynamicDisneyDuo]

We said no & she said "not again!". She went on to tell us there's a subculture of locals who get into WDW for free from a CM friend & they go to restaurants & dine & dash!!! I was flabbergasted, I've heard dine & dash but I've never actually been witness to it & then to have shared a table with them. It was so weird especially to know that it happens often.

Easy fix for that. Require guests of CMs to sign in somewhere so that they can be tracked. If they D&D, make the CM pay. Not exactly fair to the CM but it will teach them to be more careful about who they allow to use their privileges.

But it's also entirely possible they were paying guests who just chose to D&D.

 

[tinkerone]

Then there are table neighbor issues. This video has a few salty words, but it is interesting. Almost a fight in the dining room!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ns5VWxcdCo


I have seem to have the bad table neighbor gene, I have always had wonderful people at my table over several different cruise lines, but on Carnival and Princess, I had bad neighbors, and on Disney, like I said earlier in the thread, a boy next to our table barfed all over his family, and it was a LOT of barf.

loved this video but it seem one sided to me. the camera was shut off as soon as security came to the table and that makes me wonder what went on before. all it showed was the others coming to their table but it shows nothing of the before/how it started bit. sounds like it was a baby that was in question. its pretty hard to control a baby. i noticed the gentleman eating said that babies should not be in the dinning room. unless it was an adults only place saying that is just stupid. i wonder if they actually antagonized the other group till it just got to them. i have seen that happen before and the person who starts it all just sits calmly back as if they had nothing to do with it.
yes it was an enjoyable video i just wish i could have seen it all.
thanks for posting. its a group i never want to run into. lol.

 

[alaskanabbott]

Then there are table neighbor issues. This video has a few salty words, but it is interesting. Almost a fight in the dining room! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ns5VWxcdCo I have seem to have the bad table neighbor gene, I have always had wonderful people at my table over several different cruise lines, but on Carnival and Princess, I had bad neighbors, and on Disney, like I said earlier in the thread, a boy next to our table barfed all over his family, and it was a LOT of barf.

Why was the crazy family allowed to stay there yelling at the seated cruisers? Man that was poorly handled!!! I know you get this type of people everywhere- so why am I not surprised they were in a Carnival cruise?

 

[fnrsgrl]

loved this video but it seem one sided to me. the camera was shut off as soon as security came to the table and that makes me wonder what went on before. all it showed was the others coming to their table but it shows nothing of the before/how it started bit. sounds like it was a baby that was in question. its pretty hard to control a baby. i noticed the gentleman eating said that babies should not be in the dinning room. unless it was an adults only place saying that is just stupid. i wonder if they actually antagonized the other group till it just got to them. i have seen that happen before and the person who starts it all just sits calmly back as if they had nothing to do with it.
yes it was an enjoyable video i just wish i could have seen it all.
thanks for posting. its a group i never want to run into. lol.

Obviously, this kind of thing is always going to be biased, but the poster of the video said that the child had been screaming every minute or so for the whole cruise. The child didn't seem to be in pain or discomfort, but shrieking for attention. This was the last night of the cruise; multiple families throughout the cruise had asked for the servers to do something and were told nothing could be done. On this last night, this table again asked for someone to fix the problem and were told that the servers could do nothing, so they asked to see the Maître d', who said something to the family. It was then that the family came over and began behaving very badly toward them. He claims that the other party was escorted out by security and that he was offered the opportunity to formally press charges against them for threatening his wife. He also claims that his friend made the video and that for much of it, he didn't know the camera was on. Based on his behavior vs. the angry family's, I believe him!

 

[twindaddy]

That video hits a nerve with me. The problem is that if restaurants of any kind remove families with disruptive children from the property or sometimes even request that the parents control them, it gets blown up all over the media, mommy blogs and review sites that thus-and-such isn't a family-friendly establishment or hates kids. It's ridiculous! A manager should be able to remove any patron who is disruptive to others in the restaurant and who will not correct the behavior without fearing any kind of serious recourse, regardless of that patron's age. It's not right or fair for paying customers without children or those with children that are under control to have their entire meal ruined by being subjected to screaming or running children. Consequently, children running free in restaurants could be very dangerous to the children themselves and to others (it's a room full of people carrying knives and hot food on trays that may block their view of a small person) and shouldn't be tolerated by management. Plus, as soon as those folks came over and started threatening those that had been complaining about them, they should have been removed immediately, not allowed to yell and scream for five minutes. Hopefully, Disney would handle this situation better than Carnival did. (And before anyone gets upset, please don't get me wrong, I love kids and understand that they can't always be kept still or quiet, especially when their normal patterns and schedules have been disrupted. I just feel like parents nearly always have the option to remove their disruptive children from the restaurant/other public space and take them somewhere private to calm down or be dealt with.)

So true, they are in a no win situation. You ask a kid to be taken out, Mom (or Dad) blows up the internet with "my kid has special needs and we got kicked out of a dining room on a XYZ Cruise ship". It is on MSNBC and Fox and it is a big pain in the butt for the cruise line. I was amazed they let the guy stand there and yell at the table, but I hate to say from what I heard Disney does not do much better in dealing with disruption in the dining room.

I was very surprised on my last cruise, which was a four day on Princess (AWESOME cruise, by the way, not everyone on Princess is 95 years old, who knew?). Anyways, the muster drill was inside and you were seated in a lounge or theater. As such, it went on a long time as the recording reminded you of many different regulations. MUCH longer than a Disney or Carnival drill. A baby in front of me was a tad fussy, not even on my radar as a parent, he maybe screeched twice. Seriously it was not a big deal, typical little kids stuff. Two different crew members starting moving towards her to tell her she needed to step out, as her child was disrupting the muster drill and other passengers needed to hear the info. The mom huffed and took the kid out. I was actually very impressed, I told the cruise director later. To me the muster drill is deadly serious, people need to hear the info. Well done Princess!

Why was the crazy family allowed to stay there yelling at the seated cruisers? Man that was poorly handled!!! I know you get this type of people everywhere- so why am I not surprised they were in a Carnival cruise?

I have had delightful cruises on Carnival, and I think from this thread, it is clear Disney has its share of nuts also!

If some guy got in my wife's face like that, I do not think I could stay seated.

 

[PizzieDuster]

Then there are table neighbor issues. This video has a few salty words, but it is interesting. Almost a fight in the dining room!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ns5VWxcdCo


I have seem to have the bad table neighbor gene, I have always had wonderful people at my table over several different cruise lines, but on Carnival and Princess, I had bad neighbors, and on Disney, like I said earlier in the thread, a boy next to our table barfed all over his family, and it was a LOT of barf.

My husband came over to look over my shoulder "what are you watching?" That was crazy! "I'm gonna s*** in your ******* salad!" Love the guy in the Santa hat in the back ground. Sad that there were kids around. I can't imagine having to go through the rest of the cruise like that. I'll take the lady flossing at the table instead.

 

[twindaddy]

My husband came over to look over my shoulder "what are you watching?" That was crazy! "I'm gonna s*** in your ******* salad!" Love the guy in the Santa hat in the back ground. Sad that there were kids around. I can't imagine having to go through the rest of the cruise like that. I'll take the lady flossing at the table instead.

I prefer no s*** in my salads, but then again I am a picky eater like that.

I might have told the guy I was putting it on youtube so he can watch himself.

 

[MsJiminyCricket]

My husband came over to look over my shoulder "what are you watching?" That was crazy! "I'm gonna s*** in your ******* salad!" Love the guy in the Santa hat in the back ground. Sad that there were kids around. I can't imagine having to go through the rest of the cruise like that. I'll take the lady flossing at the table instead.

With the culture in our society, as soon as you start cursing- you always look like the lesser of the adversaries because you're taking the mentality down a notch.

 

[MsJiminyCricket]

Then there are table neighbor issues. This video has a few salty words, but it is interesting. Almost a fight in the dining room! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ns5VWxcdCo I have seem to have the bad table neighbor gene, I have always had wonderful people at my table over several different cruise lines, but on Carnival and Princess, I had bad neighbors, and on Disney, like I said earlier in the thread, a boy next to our table barfed all over his family, and it was a LOT of barf.

None of this would have happened if they'd only brought their reborn babies instead of their real one. dde1c

 

[OceanAnnie]

This thread does not have your garden variety crazy. This is a whole different level!

Forget about the table. I wouldn't want to be stuck on a ship with some of those crazies!